I think the clothes they wear are the clothes they were wearing when they died.

I spent about 10 years living with ghost, 7 of those as an adult. But as an adult, I can only see them while I am asleep, or unconscious, or whatever
the state is. Sometimes I have seen them naked. It just depends on what they want out of you.

Personally, I believe the ghosts seen in period clothing aren't sentient/self aware spirits but echos of the past. I've never come across reports of
interaction from or activity out of a ghost that was actually seen well enough to determine clothing and the time frame it'd be from. The 'active'
entities or dangerous ones seem to be far more ..vague in shape and substance if they ever choose or are able to manifest at all.

I don't find it any more astounding that ghosts show up in clothing as ghosts show up at all. Why is it any stranger to manifest a favorite t-shirt
as it is to manifest hair, or an arm, or a hand? Spirit energy is not more connected to our clothing than it is to our body, as I understand it.

Originally posted by VegHead
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This discussion reminds me of a similar one, that is, the question of what chronological age ghosts are. It seems like child ghosts are always
children, but adult ghosts aren't necessarily the age they were when they died. Otherwise, many more ghosts would be old geezers.

Serious answer? Ok. It's my thought that if there are ghosts, they are simply like a recording burned into the surroundings, perhaps caused by the
trauma of their death or the love for the area they had in life. If that's the case, then what compels you to wear the clothes you are wearing now?
Fashion of the times? The need to fit in with peers? Social or economic status?

It may go with the 'loop theory' where the entity is stuck in a looped part of their life. To me, this would explain the clothing because they are
stuck in a spot where all parts of their energies were recorded somehow.

The shadow people may be the intelligent spirits whilst clothed spirits may be residual memories recorded by means we are yet to discover. I am
somewhat new to researching the paranormal and have yet witnessed with my own eyes apparitions. I have done evp sessions and have captured voices. I
am not certain these are actual spirits or perhaps just audio waves somehow captured on my audio device.

I remain skeptically open minded while doing my research. We know we can capture sights and sound with recording devices, perhaps certain environments
can somehow do something similar. As to how we can see these anomalies, I have no idea. I am yet to see them myself.

Originally posted by minnow
And why do they usually appear clothed (as opposed to naked) and only from around waist, up?

Aren't ghosts supposed to be real-time, interactive human spirit energy? So why would their manifestations including particular clothing, which are
purely something synthetic and varied.

Could the observation of clothes hint that these manifestations are more on the side of observer-created poltergeists, or some sort of "memory of the
atmosphere" in certain spots?

(As opposed to portals and true entities which are usually foggy blackish cloaked)

Ghosts are not the dead from the past. What you're wittnessing when you see ghosts are magnetic time distortions caused by the Earth's magnetic ley
lines and often areas high in limestone deposits. That is why ghosts have that faint or hazy look to them, because you're seeing into the past. That's
also why they're wearing clothing, they're not dead, they're alive. Past, present, and MAYBE future exist all at the same time.

Magnetic time distortion. Natural time travel. A brief glimpse into the past. It happens in waves or ripples, if you will. These time ripples come in
various "distances of time" which is why we see moments from 100 years or 50 years ago. It depends on the size of wave...the magnetic time
ripple/distortion.

The ghosts I seen were super real, and they talked directly, even saying who they were and I had no prior knowledge of one because I was a child, the
second time I knew the person who had recently died and was a close relative.

I truly believed they were real, they looked, sounded and acted real,even their clothes and they picked up things but couldn't sit.

The ghosts I seen were super real, and they talked directly, even saying who they were and I had no prior knowledge of one because I was a child, the
second time I knew the person who had recently died and was a close relative.

I truly believed they were real, they looked, sounded and acted real,even their clothes and they picked up things but couldn't sit.

When you say they picked up things, do you mean they levitated solid objects, like a book or something?

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